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TIDB Or PROSPERITY.
lowing Over South not Without Per
il-Christians Should Pray that
South be not Ruined by this. I
Enormous Inoming ]
Wealth.
By Richard H. Edmonds, Editor Man
ufacturers' Record.
During 1906 the wealth of the south
increased $7,300,000 for every day of
the year, Sundays included, or a total
of $2,690,000,000. The actual in
crease in assessed value was $1,076,
479,788, and this was on the averago
of 40 )er cent of tle true value. The
amazing magnitude of this gain of
$7,300,000 a day is strikingly shown i
by the statemeiwt of The London Ex- a
press, which, bemoaniiig the inability e
of Great Britian to keep pace with u
America's growth, put the increase
in Great Britain 's wealth at. $7,000,- o
000 a week.
Contrast file souith's iicirease of d4
$7,300,000 a day with Greal Britain's
$7,000,000 a week and theti think of
the future.
(reat Britain, withli comparatively
few natural resoulrces, dopendent lIp
on the outside world for nearly all th
its food-stiffs, for much of its iron at
ore, for all of its cotton, anld a lar cge el
part of its liumlber, and withi only
10,000 square miles of coal, of which
a large p)ortion has been worked out, u
has 40,000,000 people crowded into an
area equal to that of less than half o
of Texas. la
1. On the other hand, look at the po
south With the world's cotton trade h
in its absolute domination, with 62,
000 square miles of virgin coal fields,
with iron ore sillicienlt to dulflicate b
for years to ceii the iron and steel w
trade of all ilurope, with almost limit- w
less soil capabilities already ro(uc- te
ing over 800,000,000 bushels of grain ti
a year and several hundred million wi
dollars' worth, of diversified farm it
prodinels, able to produce foodstufts I
for hu11nd reds of mnillions, able to of
clothe the world, able to do more at
ianufacurig.. than that of the whole th
count t today, with millions of avail- 5(
able wat r power, 500.000 1:.orse power ae
for electrical tranisiission being al- w
reaTdy mider development, and, when sit
You have catalo-neid these, you have wv
mientioned only a few of the south's fo
strongl points, lie
Who can Measure Possibilities? wl
Who can measure the limitless bi
possibilities of the south? Who can of
fully grasp tile fact that the south sa
is rapidly pushing forward to the to
time when its own wealth will exceed wl
all -of the vastN wealth aeeinmlated by 00
Oreat, Britian through the ages, and s
by which it dointe the m1inalces on
of tle world ? Suirely tihe visini is1a'
one to stir everY soulilier heliar't, for qll
it is. ilideod, :1 reality. la
The ".rowth int wealth diiim, lhe
Coinll' years will tar exceed the
wonderful story of 1906.
Unto whom much has been given
of himn shall much1-1 he required'' is :as
I rne as wil-n tirst uilt ira. The somb'si
rsponsitbility~ is a1s vaii as are its re- h
sluorces. amiil its gatin ini weailt h. Thlej
wvorld has a right to demand of such
a cotiitry the htighest order of cit iz
enship, thle highest type of a striong'
self-reliant people who, realizing their
power and dulty, build for time and hi
eternity a character which shall be a
worthly of imitai onl. Such a people t
shouild be givers, not beggaris-gi vers a
not. simply of money, which counts
for littleIc-but givers to all mankind
of honor, selft-reliance, inudepiendenice
an tunuudevia1t ingt devo t ion to the hig~h
est principles of' life. llegtgars! h eg- ti
garns of money Ion aniy cause when a
bountifuli Providence is pouring more
than $7,000,000 a day into their laps,
seven times as much as the present
increase in Great Britain 's wealth!
And yet the south may colle unduer
the charge of begginlg charity w~hen 0
too mar;'y of its people stand, wimt h hat d
in hand, asking alms of others and
pledging themselves to almost anyb
conditions ill order t'o win the fewv
a
paltry dollars that ale doled ouit by
those whlose chlarityv is, to say the a
least, nol free and open, but has a .
strinlg tied to it.
Beggars! and1( yet $7,000,000 our
daily growth in wealth !
Pray That South Be Not Ruined.
Better a thiousanidfoldl that every
Clhrist ian soul11 should lbe much in .
prayer, asking D)ivine guidance that
the south be not4 ruined by this enor
mous inicomimg wealth. Every fibre
of our moral being will be tested as
never before. It is no longer "root
hog or die,'' as it was for forty
years. Under that striin the south
faced problems such as no0 othler p)ee
pIe on earth ever had to meet, It conJ
quered dliffienilt,ies which the wvorl'
had thought would conquer it. In
those days wvhich tried men's souls
it asked no favors; it was a giver to
the strength and manhIood of the nla
tion. Nowv, with limitless wvealthl at
its doors, it is in danlger of losing its
oldtime stui-dinless of character. It
is ill danger of no0 longer being self
reliant. It seems to have forgotten I
Its own strength; for, in apparent
weakness, its cries to others to come
md give a few beggarly dollars,
which its own people could give a
iundred times over and never miss.
t has been said that '' a beggar race
an never be a great race," and no
ne disputes the statement.
Would you sap the virility, the
turdy character, the manliness of a
ooy? Then paucrize him in, thought.
each him to look to others for help
nd decision, instead of developing
elf-reliance. Teach him to accept
harty, teach him that,. as the world
wes him a living, all lie has to do is
c sit (own and wait for -others to
air for him, and you have made a real
inhood impossible. Outwardly such
mnan may look prosperous. If sue
ssftul as a beggar or as a dependent
pon ofhers, his fine clothes and well
roowed hearing may give him the
itward semblance of a real man, but
wardly there is decay, rottenness,
3ath.
As with anl individiial, so with a
,ople or a nation. The nation is but
e sum of its units. Outwardly there
ay be signs of real life, of manhood,
progress upward, hut at the heart
ere may be a fatal disease gnawing
the very vitals of all true national
aracter and life.
The south needs to study this sit
ition as no other people ever did.
2i years of poverty and privation,
hard struggle in which every dol
r had to do the duty of two, are
Lssing. For thousands those years
,ve already suddenly passed.
Millions Won Quickly.
A few days ago the writer .at at a
nquet in a soutlheir iron center
iose growth only typifies what soon
11 be seen to a greater or less ex
nt in hundreds of other southern ci
3s. On, his right sat a man who
thin a few years ha.v made a for
ne, and who mienti..ned the pur
ai- three years ago of 3.500 acres
land at about $63.000, or $18 an t
re. for which Ie and his two or
ree associates would now refuse $3,
0,000 for the tract, or $1,000 anl
re; next to him was a -entlenan
o but 1a few years ,2,o was a mlinle
perinlendent at a siall salary, and
to has lately received $1,000,000
r his interest in, a coal property; n
xt again to him was a businss man,
10 through inventions and their
sines development has an income
$75,000 a year, of which his friends
y he devotes one-third, or $25,000
religious work; next came a man t
1o would be foolish to iccept $5,- V
0.000 for property for which I am
re lie would have gladly accepted
e-ienth of that less than ten years
o. And so oil down fle whole ban
et, table---len of millions who but
('y were t"ilers for a living.
Thiese nwn(1 are' mely( rpresenli1fa
-s of tlousands who are to he Imade
m111101osv rich hy tle material
e
owth l of thle south i. whlile hu nd redst
lhouisand heCretofore eking out a
ir. Ii vin iHonly, ar oon01 to lie nuim
red amlonr lie well-f ido withl whom
ildillar of ysedyhas grown to
c hundred of today.
Cruciaa Point for the South.
Inu this mlighty change thle south is
eing thle most crucial point in itsI
story. Tt could go downl in battle,t
id see ifs bleloved leaders (dead b)y
nls of thousands, its wealthl swept
v'ay and its homes devasted, and
t lose none of its moral fiber, its1
al mlanlhood anld womanhlood. Un
rP such' ordeals it could( -withi head
eet still face a frowning world and
rn defeat oil tile battlefield inlto
etory inl thle wdrid's comnmeriial
ruggle. More than that, inl the time
its direst poverty it could be equal
reestablishing lawv and order, to
ulying its great labor problem, and
thle gradual bult sure development
its educational facilities, state and
anominational.
Now, when,l commercial v'ictory hlas
len won, when wealth is growing at
rate never imagined a few years
reo, all elemnt that forgot tile southl
the (lay of its poverty or crippled
still more, that cared not whether
livedl or died, now h)earing gi fts in1
is bands, comes to the southI with
.roff'ers of a little mloneyV for its
chiools, provided these schools5 and
heir teachers give in exchlange an
rredeemable mortgage on. the soul of
lie institution and on the very man
lod of its stuldents of today and all
tereafter.,
And, 1ol led away by false teach
'rs, by men who for a retainer, for
lie grafification of a misdirected am
sii On, or unlder the inlfluence of a
rnorb1id hlumanlitarianism, hlave pro
slaimed tile beauty and loveliness of
meh01 a plan, and the wonderful ange
bec chlaracter -of thlis element which
would, h owever- lofty its mistaken
pupose, pauperize tile manhood of the
louith, and thus make it ready to ac
cept all of' the false doctrines and
social equalifty practices as to 'te
race question, many southerners al
most fall down and worship this cle
become a whirlwind har.ie1.,for the
south.
Signs of the Storm. .
The signs of the storm re' seen in I
many directions, and when it breaks c
these false leaders who have sold E
their birthright for a mess of pot- c
tage will be the first to seek shelter. c
People tell us that the hegro is es- r
sential to the south's prosperity- v
that without him as a woriker this v
section would cease its wonderful in
dustrial development. Thailoctrine
is false. Now that the world knows i
in part the riches of the south's ma- a
terial resurecs, now that it realizes t
to some extent the vastness of its c
coal and iron supplies and its strate- t
gic relation to the world's industrial b
life, whether this section were pco- 1
pled with savage cannibals or were- 1
without a siile inhabitant economic
development would force a great po- a
pulation and vest material ,upbuild- a
ing southward.
Did the deadly arrow or rifle of the e:
Indian stop the westward march of
population? Did the seemingly im
penetrable ice reaches of Alaska with
the fearrul suffering entailed half
vetifor ani hour the tide of populatiion
when once the prospect of gold be
ane the alluring vision? We need
lot stop for a moment to think about ti
,vhcther the south will draw popula- el
.ion or not. That is just as certain N
is the rising of tomorrow's sun. We
should, however, very seriously con- w
,ider what part the people of the ir
;outh themselves are to play in the d
roiderful drama of development up- C(
mi which the curtain is Just begin
kin to rise. w
Tlirough false teaching, through in
.ailure to fit tie rising generation d:
oy technical training to meet the new t.
onditiolls, thIlrough failure to devel- ni
op as never before-for never be
ore was it so badly needed-sturdi- ti
tess of character, self reliance to to
nect every emergency, and initiative 1f
r see and grasp the opportunities of -
lie day, tile south's own people may N
n tile ineaitime have become tile
iewers of wood and the drawers of
ater for otliers.
Day for the Technical Man. o
Ir the ien who are worse than ti
aniting their time in toadying to the o
Ins givers and heralding as wise
!aders for the south to follow, I)eo- so
,Ie wio know absolutely nothing
bout its real educational needs, if 4t
tie men who in mistaken zeal are
orever, discussing the negro tues
ion and tius making a real probleni'
iere none of importance exists but
or this agitation, and discussion,
-ould all unite in one uitiring ef
ort. to arouse the south to fit itsi
Ahite hoys and girls for tie mighty
evelopmeti ahead, they wwuld then
0 doing good service to their coln
Soni tine ago T le1d mn oration
a lie efect. that the suprene need
StOhe southi is a few great universi
ie. In dietion and dcelivrv it was
cell igh jwpeet but it was funda
i(ntlly false. 'This is et the day
rent nniversity in the Nhuth. Such
s we have, if properly hantdied, are W
ell eniougii inl their -wav. Thlis is
lhe dayI for thle,techlnienl in, for the
1ext quafrter of a cntury:;at leaist be
ongs to the industrial leander. During
hat time tIhe south is to see such mat
rial progress as never fell to the lot
>f any country on earth. Thie peo
>le are to control the vast wealth to
>e created are thle technically train
nd boys of today. If not southern
>oys, hoys5 who are being t rained else
vbmere andi made ready for suchel }imit
tess opportunitdes. T.t is not ai qjustioni
of favoring 'commercialism' socalled.
Thle industrial era is upon us and we
would not stop it if we could. It is
simply a question of whlether t,he
south is going to fit its own people to
lead iin the creation and control of
coming wealth. In this era upon
which we have entered the university
man will be the employee of the tech
nically trained expert. Later on will
come the university man's opportun
ity. Controlling its industry and do
mninating its wealth, thlese t echnically
rainedl mn wvill be the leaders in
state and church, and blenee the su
preme neced of the south is to bend
every energy to fit its rising genera
tionls for these vast opportunities and
still vaster resp)onsibilities, to train
its young people in self-reliance, and
to teachl them thlat a half loaf, wheth
er of bread or of educational oppor
tunity, won by hard and honest work,
by the sweat of the brow, means more
for manhood than a thousand dain
ties accepted as charity from those
upon. whom they have no claim.' In
stead of doing this, many of our peo
ple are losing time of priceless value
by talking about universities here
and universities there, or in begging
a few dollars from Ogdenism for
some denominational school which
should look to its own people alone
for its support in money, in stuldents
and in brains:
What the South Could Do.
Moreover, the south out of its own
abnntresources coul give, and
ive a hundredfold more without tu
nisihg it' than vhat it begs from of
thers, if its people weIre being right
y trained never to look beyond their ti<
wn borders for a single dollar. They mi
hould be 'trained npw during this oi
rucial time when rushing from pov- io4
rty into prosperity to dedicute their lei
ow wealth to the- proper education- da
1, moral, spiritual and manhood do
olopment of their own people,. or
In the material world this is the
lastic ago when concrete construction
; taking the place of iron and steel
nI lunrber. In such construo.ion,
lie concrete taken at thOe tight time,
an be moulded into any form, but let
ie critical moment pass without its va
eing rightly moulded and it becomes Co
set'' and hardened and worse lian m
seless. The souti has enfered the
lastic age in tile formatior, of char
eter, and unless its peopw be ri.;htly
oulded now, southern character will
set' and harden beyond man's pow.
to change or improve.
CHEAP RATES
Via Southern Railway. Jamestown
er-Centennial Exposition, Norfolk,
a.
On account of he above occasion
le following instructions will gov
'n the sale of round trip tickets to
orfolk, Va. from Ntwberry, S. C.
Season ticket-$19.55. This ticket
ill be sold daily April 19th to and
eluding November 30th, 1907, final
ite to leave Norflok returning De
imber 15th, 1907.
60 day ticket-$16.30. This ticket
ill be sold daily April 19th to and
eluding November 30th, 1907, final
ie to lenve Norfolk returning six
(60) days from awte of sale and
it hated thatn december 15th, 1907.
Fifteen day ticket-$14.30. This
!ket iwll be sold daily April 19th
and including November 30th,
107, final date to leave Norfolk re
DTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
Notice is hereby given that I will
ike a final settlement on the estate
Texana E. Wicker, deceased, in
e probate court, on the 4th day
June, 1,907. and will immediately
ereafter apply for letters dismis
ry as executor of said estate.
David B. Wicker,
1taw. Executor.
o&E--ar 13
You will save money and get a
better roof by using
PAROID.
Slate colored-contains no tar
ea sily laid-a roofing kit free.
Spark, water, gas, heat and cold
proof. Lasts long and looks well.
Don't take an imitation.
Send for a free sample and book of build
inig plans for a 2 cent stamp. Investigate.
AMIPLE I~rU1
Three ways are used by
for curing and preparing
bacco for the market; nan
cured, air cured and flu!
The old and cheap way is <
cured; the later discovery
proved way is called flue cu
In flue curing the tobaccc
from the fields and racked
especially built to retain I
there subjected to a contint
temperature, produced by 1
heat of' flame heated flue
brings out in the toba
stimulating taste and arc
expert roasting develops
coffee. These similar proce
to both tobacco and coffee ti
ing and stimulating quality~
ularizes their use.
The quality of tobacco
much on the curing proces
kind of soil that produces
pert tests prove that this fi
R. J. REYNOLDS, TOE
rning fifteen (15) days from date s
.sale. C
Coach Excusion ticket-8.55. This a
ket is not god in sleeping, Pull- f
mn, or Parlor cars, and will be sold 9
Tuesday of each week during per- V
I.of the exposition, final date to h
we Norfolk returning ten (10) T
ys from date of sale.- g
For routes, stop-overs, etc., write Q
call on us. d
f
Winthrop College
Scholarship and Entrance f
Examination. (
rhe examination for the award of ii
31it Scholarships in Winthrop F
llege and for the admission of new 4
DANDRUFF
Is your hair coming out
great combsful? Every conr
causing a pang of fear for the
ture.
Does a white trail of danc
sift over shoulders ?
One bald spot has already
peared. You manage to hid
but it is spreading rapidly.
Is the hair you have left t
ing gray or fading and rn.
you look old and homely when
are still young?
Have you tried many resi
tives that gummed your hair
a sticky mass-but accompli.
nothing else ?
Then Rexall "93" Hair Ton
the remedy you need.
C, Rexall "93" Hair Tonic is%,
ly free from grease or sedim
and will neither gum the hair
soil the clothing or pillows. I
clear and clean.
Rexall "93" Hair Tonic si
falling hair and permanently 1
ishes dandruff.
It does this by destroying
cause-the microbes.
Rexall "93" Hair Tonic
quickly cover the bald spots i
a vigorous growth of hair.
guarantee to grow hair on
heads where a spark of life
mains in the roots and where
follicles have not grown over.
makes a delightful dressing,
keeps the scalp clean and heali
We sell a large bottle for f
cents that we guarantee to dc
we have claimed or refund y
money.
CILDER & WEE
farm r obacco gro
thi to-es mont rein
o cued. snyother se
and m- ojucy,ful to
fre s tobacco, hung
thi tke pore ion,
inl brs cheersninge
reatan tobacco, hund
ous high Schnapps pa
he direct -one chewe:
3, which 'until the fi
eco that there are ii
ma that pounds of t
in green population iri
sses give tobacco is i
1e cheer- -those states 1
that pop- yet been offe
A roc. plu
depends economical ti
; and the p lug of cheai
t, as ex- per pound ii
ue .cured and 15 cent
ACCO COMPA NY. Wn1
udents will be hold at the Coupty
buit 1ouse on Friday, July 5,at 9
.'Applicants m.ust be not less than
ifteen years of age. When. Scholar
hips are vacated after July 5, they
ill be 'awarded to those making the
ighest avemge at this examination,
rovidod they meet the conditions
dverning the award. Applicants for
cholarships should write to Presi
ent Johnson before the examination
)r Scholarship examination blanks.
Scholarships are worth $100 and
ree tuition. The .next session will
[)en September 18, 1907. For further
ifOrimnation and catalogue, address
res. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C.
NV.
A R'ASON
by The United Drug
by Company, manufac
bful turers of the Rexall
fu- Remedies, for whose
preparations we are
agents in .this city,
[ruff make 200 remedies,
one for each ill. Each
one is especially pre
ap- pared to cure one dis
ease, and that only.
e it. This is an age of spe
cialists. You d o n 't
contract with a plumb
urn- er to build your whole
ikes house do you? Why
oul you contract
you with one proprietary
medicine to cure all
your troubles.
ora- Oftentimes you run
t across a building con
tractor who has a sepa.
hed rate plumbing depart
ment, his own plastering
department, and so on,
all of which dovetail to.
iC is gether and build the
house. This is just what
The United Drug Com
hol. pany is doing for you in
the medicin kne. They
ent, have cut down profits;
they manufacture Rex.
nor all remedies for over
t is 2,000 retail druggists.
These druggists are the
only intermediate profit
that stand between The
:ops ,United Drug Company
and the patient.
Could The U n I t e d
Drug Company, of
which we are a member,
the afford to make one Voor
medicine in this line?
Does not common seise
Will tell you that one poor
medicine would ruin the
vith sale of the other 199
preparations ? If you
we bought a Rexall prepara.
tion and it didn't do for
you what we claim it will,
re- would you buy another
one of our articles? We
the believe not. Therefore
I eah preparation must
It be good-t is good. We
and who are in theAlrug bus
iness know the formulas
:hy. of these Rexall ?repara
. tions. We believein
them so implicitly that
1l we stand back of them,
al with our guarantee to re.
otir fund you your money if
they do not benefit you.
KS, Druggists
dSTORE .
vn in the famous Pied.
requires and takes less
han tobacco grown in
tion of the United States
vholesome, stimulating
acco taste that satisfies
er. That's why chewers~
upps, because Schnapps~
than any other chewing,
that's why chewers of'
ss the good thing along J
e makes other chewers,
tct is established that
ore chewers and more.
obacco chewed to the
.states where Schnapps
~old than there are an
vhere Schnapps has not
red to the trade.
g of Schnapps is more
1an a much larger roc.
tobacco. Sold at 50c.
i 5c. cuits. Strictly to
lugs.
STON-SALEM, N. 4